The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Looking over old German wire entanglements towards the village of Hermies (beyond Doignies and near the Hindenburg Line), though possessing strong defences, was siezed during the morning of 9 April, by a surprise attack of the 2nd and 3rd Battalions from the flanks. Some of the German defences can be seen in the foreground.
The German withdrawal. Noreuil (beyond Vaulx-Vraucourt and near the Hindenburg Line), showing the slope down which the 50th Battalion advanced on 2 April to the seizure of the village, an occasion of
The barbed wire entanglements in front of the first line of defences in the Hindenburg system near Bellenglise.
View of the German wire entanglements before Hermies, in the Bullecourt sector. It was here that the troops of the 5th Division, in the attack on 2 April 1917, succeeded, after heavy fighting, in the
The house near Ville-sur-Ancre, upon which a successful local attack was carried out by companies of the 58th and 59th Battalions, during the battle of Hamel. The building, which marked the extreme le
Looking towards Boursieres, from a brick kiln situated between the railway station and the village of Hermies.
A section of the Hindenburg Defences near Malakoff Farm, photographed to illustrate how the wire entanglements in places along the Hindenburg Front Line System had sunk in ditches to the level of the
